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Palomar Ventures Teams With Soros On Wireless Investment

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Los Angeles-based Palomar Ventures is in a new funding with Soros Fund Management, in a deal worth $128.4M ExteNet designs, builds and operates distributed wireless networks. to Illinois wireless firm ExteNet Systems. Palomar is represented on ExteNet's board by Kevin Jacques.

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Finding Developers is Tough Again

SoCal CTO

I’m seeing and hearing that it’s becoming tough finding good developers again, at least here in Los Angeles. And it’s not just me, Ben Kuo just posted - Good news for developers (and jobs) We’ve been talking with a lot (and I mean a LOT) of people who are looking for developers in Southern California (Los Angeles and beyond).

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Interview with Adi Jaffe, All About Addiction

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To understand how one local company is making that transition, we talked with Los Angeles-based All About Addiction (www.allaboutaddiction.com), a company that grew out of Adi Jaffe's work at UCLA as a trained psychologist. What effort and what kind of person does it take to make the leap from academia to the commercial world?

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Interview with Clark Benson, Ranker

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Right now, we are running targeted ads using ad networks or whatnot. Although I've been in Los Angeles, my last company was actually based in Chicago. We had some great offshore coders as part of the engineering team. What is the business model here?

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The Power of “In Person” – Why Distributed Teams are Less Effective

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This is a topic that comes up often in Los Angeles because many CEOs are tempted to hire their tech teams in the Bay Area. For me one of the tell tale signs of a real entrepreneur is that they know how to network well enough to find technical talent to join them. What about offshoring? I have another exception.